21 ideas and reminders for 1 to 1 badminton coaches

What do coaches need to consider when delivering an individual badminton coaching session?

This list gives you 21 things that you can consider in your badminton coaching.  I’m sure that coaches, parents and players will find something of interest.  Some are ideas away from the court, most are suggestions for the session itself.

How many can tick off when you watch or take part in your next badminton coaching session?

Which ones do you want to hear more about?  email me and I promise to get back to you soon.

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Have I missed any that you would include?

I would love to hear your thoughts 🙂

Please send any comments to contact@badmintonandy.com

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1.   Always carry your contact details and business card
2.   Be approachable and smile, talk to anyone who approaches you
3.   Be insured, be responsible
4.   Offer a trial of 4 sessions before asking people to sign up
5.   Ask for 3 things they want to improve prior to the very first session
6.   Include Tactical elements and concepts in everything you do
7.   Greet them with open questions and find out something new every time you have a session
8.   Warm up together & use the warm up to prepare for later tasks
9.   Ask the parents to sit by the court, involve them.  They are paying so give them something to think about
10.   Vary the themes within the first 4 sessions: 1 technical, 1 physical, 1 doubles or singles, 1 showing improvement
11.  Ensure learning takes place, especially decision making.  Practices without decisions are just routines.
12.   Don’t ‘kill’ players with physical or multi-shuttle drills.  Try not to default to multi, understand its limitations.
13.   Be aware of saturation in all forms: concentration, physical, technical changes.  Try to anticipate saturation.
14.   You must move don’t just stand still and feed throughout the session.  Be an opponent at times, try to gain an advantage over the player.
15.   Ensure its enjoyable, include lots of mini games that create learning or establishment of skill without the player knowing
16.   Ensure players have defined “takeaway” moments and recap throughout not just at the end
17.   Work very hard to prevent many classic errors.  I recommend doing lots of below shoulder stroke work in the early months.
18.   Cool down and summarise together.  Ask them what they enjoyed, you may be surprised!
19.   Instil a desire for improvement.  Encourage an objective view concerning errors.  In fact work towards ‘errors’
20.   Involve parental feedback.  they may see things you have missed.  Their opinion matters.

21.   Over deliver,  no matter what you charge

Do you think there are others that need to be included?   Which ones would you like more information or explanation?

Please send any of your thoughts and comments to contact@badmintonandy.com

Thanks for reading this far, I appreciate your time and motivation 🙂

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